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Thursday, September 06, 2007 — posted by Sarah
Charles Jeter has written up a general lack of information about RoboHelp in various SEC disclosure statements filed by Adobe.Although I'm also a great fan of conspiracies, I'm afraid that the answer in this case is quite simple. RoboHelp's revenue is not material in the general scheme of things. The "Other" segment, which includes the infamous "Classic Publishing" (aka "We Don't Give a $#$#@ About These Products"), accounts for just under 10 percent of total revenues. Source: Adobe presentation, PDF format, page 10)
The Mobile and Device Solutions segment is even smaller, at 2 percent, but Adobe foresees huge growth in that area. Not so with "classic" publishing, which includes RoboHelp, PostScript, FrameMaker, and a bunch of other nerdy kids generally picked last on the playground.
What's more amusing, though, is that the Adobe TechComm blog was updated this afternoon with a cheery missive from Vivek Jain about cross-product integration:
With FrameMaker 8, we began our journey towards closer integration among Adobe products for technical communicators. With four products, FrameMaker, RoboHelp, Captivate and Acrobat 3D, catering to the needs of technical communicators, we have best in class products for each requirement. Now with much closer integration among these products, we are enabling new workflows.No mention of the RoboHelp kerfluffle. Very polite.
And I find myself unable to resist this gratuitous video:
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